Ones Ready
A team of active duty Combat Control (CCT), Pararescue (PJ), and Special Reconnaissance (SR) leveraging our 69 years of special operations experience to make the next generation of operators smarter, faster and stronger than we ever were. We are the PREMIERE resource for all things Air Force Special Warfare. The Ones Ready Podcast is honest talk about what it is like to go from a know-nothing high school graduate to an elite Special Operator. We will cover important practices for success including physical training, nutrition, recovery, and mindset traits essential to any team. Join us in The Team Room to get all your questions answered!! With battle-tested operators from across USAF SPECWAR and far-reaching web of recruiters, subject matter experts, and friends, there are no questions we can’t answer- and if we can’t, we know exactly where to look. See you in The Team Room!Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the OnesReady team are those of the team and do not reflect the official policy or position of the DoD. Any content provided by our Podcast guests, bloggers, sponsors, or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign the DoD, any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual, or anyone.
Episodes
963 episodes
FAQs III - Ep 633
How do you actually know when you’re ready for Air Force Special Warfare?Trent and Peaches are back with Part 3 of the Operator Training Summit FAQs, answering questions submitted directly by candidates.And this one gets into so...
Hurricane Ride Out - Ep 635
What actually happens on a military base when a hurricane is headed straight at it?Trent and Peaches break down the stuff most people never see.Aircraft have to move.Families may have to evacuate.Training stops.Other...
Hero Trap - MBRS 135
Everybody sees the medal.Almost nobody sees what comes after it.Trent and Peaches get into something that rarely gets talked about when military heroism becomes public:What happens to the person after the ceremony?
Nuclear Watch - MBRS 134
Trent and Peaches are back on MBRS, and apparently we still are not done talking about EOD getting a beret.The good news?They don’t actually hate EOD.The bad news?The first dude who wears that thing looking like ...
Public Execution - Ep 634
Should the government livestream an execution?Trent and Peaches get into the proposed public execution of the Fort Hood shooter — and immediately land somewhere that is probably going to piss off people on both sides.Neither guy...
Tim Kennedy WOUNDED in CONGO?! MOH Drama Update - War Room Recall
The War Room is back — Aaron Love, Jake Zweig, Nate Cornacchia, and Ben Pappas — and this one goes off the rails almost immediately.The biggest story:Tim Kennedy was reportedly seriously wounded during a contracting operation in...
TRUST COLLAPSE with Aaron and Ben Pappas live
Why don’t Americans trust institutions anymore?Aaron Love joins Ben Pappas for a live conversation about collapsing confidence in government, media, the justice system, major institutions, and the people who are supposed to tell us the ...
Drone Command - Ep 632
Apparently the military needs another combatant command.This one, though, might actually make sense.Trent and Peaches break down the proposed four-star command focused on autonomous warfare — unmanned aircraft, robotics, counter...
Just Listen - Ep 631
Trent and Peaches get into a problem the Air Force needs to think about now — not five years from now.Airmen are coming home from combat experiences that may look very different from what the GWOT generation went through.And one...
Where Are They? - Ep 630
Trent and Peaches start with the completely normal question of whether Noah’s Ark has finally been found after 4,300 years.From there, naturally, they end up fixing marriage, military careers, Air Force talent management, bureaucracy, g...
Beret Wars - MBRS 133
Aaron, Trent, and Peaches go MBRS-only and finally answer one of the most important questions in Air Force Special Warfare:If you locked every career field in the same team room, who ends up on top?CCT and PJ immediately start f...
Beret Inflation - Ep 629
Apparently the Air Force looked around and decided what we were desperately missing was another beret.This time it’s EOD.Aaron, Trent, and Peaches react to the new rust-colored EOD beret and immediately ask the obvious question:...
Air Force PJ vs SEAL on Chapman Medal of Honor, Iran Escalation?
Ben Pappas brings Aaron Love and Jake Zweig into the War Room, and they start with one of the most emotionally charged stories in modern special operations history:Takur Ghar.More than two decades after the battle, a new documen...
BMT Next with CMSgt Colin Fleck - Ep 628
Trent sits down at AFA with 2nd Air Force Command Chief CMSgt Colin Fleck to talk about what may be one of the biggest shifts in Air Force Basic Military Training in decades.The conversation starts with legacy. Trent wears his father’s j...
End Malaria with Dr. Steiger - Ep 627
Aaron sits down with Dr. Bill Steiger to talk about a problem most Americans assume belongs somewhere else: Malaria...Except it doesn’t.Dr. Steiger explains why global health is directly connected to American national security, military...
UK BEHAVIOR PAMPHLET
Apparently, there’s a pamphlet for that. Border problems? Public safety concerns? Hand out some reading material. That should handle it.Peaches and Trent head Outside the Wire to break down “Understanding Behaviors and Expectations in th...
Chapman Cliffhanger - Ep 626
Aaron, Trent, and Peaches get into the Ground Truth documentary controversy and the growing fight over what happened at Takur Ghar.The crew’s position in this episode is pretty simple: the documentary is not out yet, so the evidence sti...
Intent Lost - MBRS 132
Aaron, Trent, and Peaches go MBRS-only and start with one of the most frustrating things in the military:The boss says exactly what he wants.Then six people between him and the person actually doing the job decide they know what...
E-9 Disgrace - MBRS 131
Aaron, Trent, and Peaches go MBRS-only and somehow travel from the death of the A-10 to Tupac, Macklemore, child exploitation, kamikaze drones, Pete Hegseth, and AOC in about 35 minutes.Normal Saturday.The boys start by mourning t...
Airman First - Ep 625
Aaron, Trent, and Peaches are back, and Trent just returned from AFA with a firsthand look at where the Air Force is trying to take Basic Military Training.Apparently some people at AFA thought BMT was a company selling rockets, so we ar...
Peaches Is The Drama - MBRS 130
Aaron, Trent, and Peaches go MBRS-only and immediately pick up where the public episode left off: politics, internet drama, vet-bro nonsense, and the fallout surrounding the John Chapman documentary controversy.Peaches opens by doubling ...
SEALs Want Chapman's Medal - Ep 624
Aaron, Trent, and Peaches jump straight into the renewed fight over MSgt John Chapman, Takur Ghar, and the Medal of Honor narrative after new reels and an upcoming documentary challenge the accepted account of what happened on that mount...
OTS FAQs II - Ep 623
Peaches goes solo to finish another stack of Operator Training Summit questions — or at least tries to before the ribs downstairs start calling his name.This is OTS FAQ Part 2, and it starts with one of the biggest questions candidates a...